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INFLUENCED BY EGYPTIANS? KAINGAROA CARVINGS AS PROOF SIR ARTHUR KEITH’S VIEW By Telegraph.—Press Aten. —Copyright. (Sydney "Sun" Cable.) (Received August 17, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 17. Professor Sir Arthur Keith, in an North Cape crockery and the Kaingaroa Northcape crockery and the Kaingaroa carvings as further evidence of the spread of the Egyptian civilisation to the Pacific. He believed they were not connected with the origin of the Maori l ace, which was more | nearly related to the people of ,India /than to the Egyptians. Professor Elliot Spaith had traced Egyptian mummification in New Guinea, dating to 1500 B.C. Egyptian sailors had probably reached many islands in the Pacific. It’ took between 500 to 800 years for th‘e Egyptian civilisation to reach .Britain, and it was reasonable to assume'that it took 300 to 400 years to extend to the Pacific. ,r The skulls of the Maoris and of the Egyptians did not indicate a relationship.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12528, 18 August 1926, Page 7
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